Southeastern Arizona's Safford Basin is the focus of this field guidebook from the 2002 Friends of the Pleistocene meeting. The guide contains road logs for a three-day field trip and four supporting papers on topics like depositional facies, soil studies of agricultural complexes, vertebrate fossils, and paleoIndian irrigation systems. The summary was provided by the USGS.
Use Cases
- Plan geological field studies based on the detailed road logs and stop descriptions.
- Study ancient agricultural soil management based on the gridded field agricultural complex analysis.
- Research late Cenozoic depositional environments using the summary of facies in the adjacent Duncan Basin.
- Investigate paleoIndian settlements and irrigation systems described for Lefthand Canyon.
Strengths
- Contains road logs for a three-day field trip with multiple stops.
- Includes four supporting papers that expand on key topics from the trip.
- Summary was provided by the authoritative USGS organization.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- CEOS_EXTRA
- Collection Method
- Guidebook compiled for a field conference, with summary provided by the USGS.
- Geography
- Safford Basin (Gila and San Simon River Valleys), Graham County, Arizona, USA